Light Novel Review: Overlord

This light novel may be another story about being stuck in a game, or at least a world based on a game, but that doesn’t mean that Overlord is just the run of the mill story. It has a great story where the main protagonist is not just trapped in a game world, but actually taken to another world. Also the world that he ends up in is somewhat different from the actual game. This adds a nice twist to the story since the main protagonist does not have all the information about the world and therefore he can’t be all knowing about the world that he was just trapped in and has to collect information all over again. He is very overpowered compared to most of the inhabitants of the world, as far as we know. The other interesting thing is to see that the game that he was trapped in had non-human characters and he had chosen to be an undead, which means you get to see him slowly lose his humanity because he starts to take on the characteristics of the undead species. It is also amplified by the fact that he has to pretend to be a grand leader that can outperform his subordinates, which are also incredibly strong and smart compared to a regular human. This makes things interesting when he has to pretend to know what his subordinates plans are and not interfere with them, unless he wants them to find out he is an unfit leader. That brings me to all the characters that appear in this story, most already being all of the NPCs of Nazarick. They all have a unique personality that were set up by the other people in Ainz’s guild, or as the NPCs call them: “Supreme Beings”. They essentially worship them as gods and have no sympathy for humanity. It is only Ainzs’ human physice that holds them back from massacring the surrounding villages. The main plot of the story is Ainz trying to find out if the other guild members got stuck in this new world or not, and his subordinates mistaking his wishes for world domination. So if you want a good story with a crazy cast of characters then I would recommend reading this light novel.